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Koubriti v. Convertino

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In plaintiff's civil action against defendant, pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, for constitutional...

Hicks v. Baines

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action based on defendants' alleged retaliation against plaintiffs for their complaints regarding workplace discrimination, summary...

Catsouras v. Dep't of the California Highway Patrol

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought against the State of California Highway Patrol and two of its officers by the family of a decedent who died in an automobile...

Mahach-Watkins v. Depee

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action involving a deadly shooting by police, the district court's award of $136,687.35 in attorney's fees to plaintiff...

Service Employees' Int'l. Union v. Houston

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by a union claiming that city ordinances, pursuant to which the city denied the union a permit to conduct a rally in support of a strike,...

Williams v. Henagan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action by a prisoner alleging various constitutional deprivations during his confinement, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1)...

Melgar v. Greene

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a police officer and the police department, arising from an incident where plaintiff's lost and...

Farid v. Ellen

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a prisoner's challenge to a prison's rules regarding contraband and smuggling as applied to a pamphlet he possessed, summary judgment for...

Hayden v. Pataki

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections
In a Due Process and Equal Protection Clause challenge to New York's felon disenfranchisement laws, judgment on the pleadings for defendants is...

Fritz v. Charter Township of Comstock

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a town and one of its supervisors, partial grant of defendant's motion for...